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it TIMES SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1983 3 El Salvador too close to ignore, Bilirakis warns By TIM JOHNSON 'V' V) A proposed nuclear freeze resolution gave him difficulty, he said. "I spent the first two weeks on that one almost without sleep, tossing and turning and trying to decide how to go," he said. Dissatisfied with language in the resolution, he finally voted against it "WE DO NOT want to put your life and your faroi-ly life unilaterally in the hands of the leaders of the Soviet Union," he said. Bilirakis grumbled about the lack of Republican control in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He said that, since "the majority party controls all the committees" in Congress, many Republican and even bipartisan proposals get bogged down in committee. He acknowledged that the committees he chose to sit on concerning veterans affairs, small business and the elderly "are not glamor committees." But he said they represent the needs of his constituency, which includes parts of Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties. his position by saying it isn't yet "ingrained in concrete." Nonetheless, he said, "if we're going to send troops down there then let's fight to win, for crying out loud, not like in Vietnam." Bilirakis promised to travel to El Salvador personally "sometime before the end of the summer." He called conflict in El Salvador minor compared to the threat Cuba presents to the United States and particularly to Florida "90 miles away," he said. He criticized past U.S. administrations for allowing Cuba to bring in 12,000 Soviet advisors and to build a hefty, air force.

All this is "right in our own backyard," he said. "Shame on us." Bilirakis touched on a variety of subjects during 90-minute question-and-answer session, ranging from problems of the elderly to the rigors of life on Capitol Hill. Congress had to tackle some tough issues this spring, he said, and some of them have caused him "to do some soul searching." CLEARWATER Floridiani should not compare El Salvador to Vietnam, U.S. Rep. Michael Bilirakia, R-Tarpon Springs, warned Friday morning.

The difference is matter of distance, he said. There are less miles from EI Salvador to here than from here to Washington D.C.," Bilirakis told 75 mainly white-haired constituents gathered at Clearwater City Hall. "This is not Vietnam, my friends," he said. "This is an El Salvador that is 800 miles away from our shores." Bilirakis' speech at an informal town meeting in Clearwater was the first of five that he plans to give during this quick weekend swing back to his district BEFORE ASKING for opinions from the audience on troubles in Central America, the silver-haired Bilirakis offered his own. He said he is currently against sending U.S.

troops to defend the beleaguered regime in El Salvador but qualified Urgo-lmkiol Tim DA VI MEW60W U.S. Rep. Michael Bilirakis speaks at a town meeting in Clearwater City Hall. Channel 22 passes fire inspection but violates county building code II be fixed within a week. When he returned Friday, the work was done.

THE STATION didn't do as well in a second inspection Friday. Officials from the Pinellas County Building Department visited and found the station hadn't installed four fire doors or properly installed fire-preventive dampers in air-conditioning ducts. Those improvements were among those agreed to in February. Bob Pensa, director of the Building Department, said the violations that inspectors found Friday will be forwarded to the county legal staff. The station was supposed to be in compliance with county building codes within 100 days after the court agreement was signed, but Pensa said he isn't sure when that deadline is.

Station president Bob D'Andrea said Friday that the work is "99.9 percent finished." He said there have been no problems at the station since the fire. meet codes designed to keep it safe and fire-resistant AFTER NUMEROUS requests for improvements were not satisfied, the city and the county sued the station this January. The station agreed to comply in February. But, as the station officials were getting the work done, the studio came close to what fire officials had feared all along. A fire broke out when an electrical panel exploded last week.

Two men were burned. The fire didn't spread far and caused minimal damage, but it renewed the concern by county building officials and the Largo Fire Department. Largo Fire Inspector Hank Johnson, in an impromptu tour through the building folowing the fire, found what he termed shoddy wiring, a blocked fire exit and flammable carpeting stacked in the building. He outlined the violations in a letter to the station, and ordered them to By DAVID DAHL lirgo-Swntnota Timt Stiff Wrltf LARGO More than a week after a fire at WCLF-Ch. 22 studios, station officials still haven't brought their building up to safety standards.

But, they're getting closer. The studios, at 6900 142nd Ave. were toured by two seta of inspectors Friday. One inspector from the Largo Fire Department said he found the studio had fixed the violations he had found after the June 16 fire. But the other inspectors from the Pinellas County Building Department found that studio officials still haven't complied with building guidelines agreed to in court in February.

The studio, home for a Christian television sta' tion, has been a concern of building and fire officials since the doors were opened three years ago. Inspectors found that the new building didn't 1 FX If Vg How sweet It IS Ali Thorn is back in the lemonade business, after being shut down a week ago by Belleair Police officer Ed Warren for violating the city's sign code. Well, city officials researched town ordinances and found that the stand came under the category of "temporary personal pursuits," said city manager Kurt Peters. The 6-year-old's first customer at her grand reopening Friday was Warren. 1 i (Ml r-l Cut-athon to benefit hit-run victim lrgo-8minol Tlmw 8tff Wrltf physical therapy.

The hair salons participating in the cut-athon, according to Cindy Garwood, are her place, Style 2000, at 2000 West Bay Drive, Largo; Hair by New York Stylists, 2568 Sunset Point Road, Clearwater; The Hairport, 1891 -B Drew St, Clearwater; and Styles 'n Stuff, 5748 54th Ave. St. Petersburg. Ms. Garwood said appointments may be made but are not necessary.

She said the cut-athon will go on from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Regular prices will be charged, she said, and all of the money taken in will go to Johnnie. Mrs. Welcome said her son continues to be in "an awful lot of pain" but is able to get his mind off of it by visiting with relatives and neighbors who drop in, by reading and by watching television.

LARGO Four hair salons will stage a cut-athon Tuesday night in which all proceeds will go to help hit-run victim Johnnie Welcome. Welcome, a hair stylist, was critically injured Feb. 24 in Largo when a car slammed into him as he walked across Seminole Boulevard. The car sped away, and no one has been apprehended. Welcome, 38, was in Medical Center Hospital until June 1, when he was transferred to Bay Pines Veterans Administration Hospital.

He was discharged from Bay Pines Tuesday and is now living with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welcome, in Seminole. But his mother said Friday that he must return to Bay Pines every day for Largo-Saminote Tlnwt OAVEPIERSON polite Man 1 SALE I accused of throwing knife near child lasfiaas SISon. of 1008 Osceola is "If Staff Writ David K.

Alton, of 1008 Osceola is "The snake was not recovered," said. He said it crucial to DILLEY'S PATIO SHOP 41 By DAVID DAHL Johnson lirgo-Sminol Tlmw 1 was get the boy under care within an hour, particulary because he A Mar-tec Factory Outlet Choose from a large selection of accessories, from 5) 70 OFF 0 to Odds Ends Sale Drastic Reduction on discounted items. Factory Closeouts and many other selected items. Wrought Iron Love Seat Glider (2 only). Compare $319 Clearance jr Vv charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling.

He is in Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail. Alton is accused of firing a 22-caliber rifle earlier this month at a mobile home in a "heavily congested" trailer park, according to Clearwater police. Several bullets hit the trailer. When a resident of the trailer identified as Stanley Campbell came out of his home, another shot was fired, police said. Alton, a commercial fisherman, was arrested Thursday after he returned from a trip on boat, a police spokesman said.

Boy chasing lizard Is bitten by snake Claarwatar Timaa Staff Wrltar DUNEDIN The boy was chasing a lizard. He ended up getting bitten by a snake. Paramedics say Bobby Bollig 4, of Duh-edin, was given antivenin to combat a poisonous snake bite he received at 11:10 a.m. Friday at the Brooker Creek Park east of Lake Tarpon. Robert Johnson, emergency medical services coordinator for the East Lake Fire and Rescue Department, said paramedics spotted a pair of fang marks -inch apart on young Bollig.

That means the boy was bitten by a pit viper either a water mocassin or a rattlesnake, Johnson said. The boy told authorities that he was chasing a lizard while playing at the park. He shook a tree, and the snake came and bit him. PALM HARBOR A 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threw an eight-inch butcher knife toward a 3-year-old child. Robert Campos, whose address was given as the Red Carpet Inn on S.R.

60 in Clearwater, was charged by the Pinellas County Sheriffs Department with aggravated assault. He was being held Friday in Pinellas County Jail on $2,000 bail. Sheriffs officials gave this account of the incident: Matthew Copp, of Oldsmar, and his daughter were fishing below a bridge on Curlew Road east of County Road 77 at about 10:20 p.m. Thursday. A man walked up and asked for directions to Tampa and then for directions to Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard in Clearwater.

He also asked if they had caught any fish, because he was hungry. Then he showed them his knife and threw it It landed about 1 Vi feet from the child, who was sitting on a fishing tackle box next to her father. The man, identified as Campos, was later arrested by a Pinellas County sheriffs deputy. Man charged with shooting at mobile home of girlfriend) Claarwatar Tlmat Staff Wrltf CLEARWATER A 29-year-old Clearwater man, who argued with his girlfriend and allegedly shot at her mobile home, was arrested by 55 Now weighs only 35 to 40 pounds. The boy was reported in stable condition at Mease Hospital in Dunedin Friday evening.

Claarwatar Tlmaa Staff Wrltar LARGO A man professing to hold a black belt in karate was assaulted by three men Thursday but not before he got in a few punches of his own. The man told police he was crossing the street at First Street NW and West Bay Drive at about 1 p.m. Thursday. Three men in a car began yelling at him and told him he shouldn't have crossed in front of their car. The men reportedly threatened him and then got out of the car and hit him.

The victim told police he warned the men repeatedly that he had a black belt in karate. The victim said he was able to kick one man on the head, knocking him to the ground. After that happened, one of the men picked up a board and began walking toward the man, according to a police report The victim pulled a Chinese star martial-arts weapon out of his pocket, warned the man once and then threw the multi-pointed instrument at the men. It hit the man's right arm, and he fell to the ground, police said. The karate expert left the scene and contacted police.

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I had to be picked up and carried from the stage when it was over. "I vowed never to do the number again." As it turned out she said, her father faced a firing squad four times but was purposely never hit "it was a form of torture," she said. Eventually released from prison, he was allowed to leave the country 12 years ago. Still she felt that she could not perform the dance. Relations between father and daughter were strained from such a long separation, she explained, and they did not reunite until a few years ago.

Last year, her father, Raul Rodriquez Santos, came to see her annual recital for the first time. She was thrilled, she said, and presented him with an American flag after the final number. This year, he will again attend. And her solo performance will be just for him. More than 200 students of the Robbins School of Dance Arts will present their annual recital at 7 p.m.

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